Turkey’s parliament is set to vote today on a motion
allowing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to
order military action in Syria, after a mortar bomb fired across
the border killed five Turks yesterday. Syria’s uprising has
become a civil war that’s spilling across its borders, with
shells and gunfire now following tens of thousands of refugees
into Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

Germany’s condemnation of Syria is “completely clear,”
Merkel said, while calling on all parties involved to show great
caution.